I was always influenced by language.

Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.

The poets whom I knew then were all men and all seemed dauntingly sure of themselves - although I am sure that really they were as uncertain as I was.

I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there.

I would like people to come into my Dreamworld and then choose to stay.

A problem with a piece of writing often clarifies itself if you go for a long walk.

Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.